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Amanda Knox guilty - all because of a cartwheel

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No, that is not the case. However I will explain again why I do not think your outline is plausible if that will help you

On the one hand we have the testimony of the police that they arrived around 12:25 camera time, and 12:30 on their own recollection. That would be about 12:35 if the clock is slow.

When they arrived they met AK and RS outside the cottage. They had a conversation which covered both the reasons for their visit (the phones) and the strange things which AK and RS had found and were concerned about. They were shown some of those things by AK and RS. They asked for the flatmates' numbers and those were written on a post it note. Luca and his friend arrived during all this and presumably they also had to be told something of what was going on.

At some point, presumably while the police were talking to Luca and his pal, AK and RS went into AK's room. They came out of that room when Filomena and Paola arrived shortly before 1:00. Filomena then also had to be brought up to speed and she discussed the phones and also the question of whether it was usual for Meredith to lock her door. The call to the police station was made at 1:00.

To me this time frame is plausible.

On your scenario the police arrived at 12:56 (or 12:58). All of those same conversations, arrivals, explanations etc have to be made in the course of 4 (or 2) minutes. That seems to me to be unlikely. Obviously you find it plausible. And that is a straightforward difference of opinion

We do have some evidence on each side: there is the testimony of the police about their time of arrival: there is also the testimony of Luca and of Filomena about their time of arrival. There is the testimony of RS, who said the police arrived before he called 112. All of that supports the time line I choose to accept

On the other side we have the CCTV footage. You say that the idea that this does not show the police arrival is "implausible". I disagree. I have looked at it and I do not think it is possible to say it shows what it says it shows. Nor does it show the footage at 12:25 clock time. Rather odd, given the importance of that time. And that is all we have in support of the revision to the times

The footage does show the arrival of the carabinieri. It seems reasonable to me that the clock was slow because of the time they are recorded as arriving. It is not certain because it relies on an accurate record that the door was opened at 1:15. Since I accept the timings given by the witnesses I accept the implication: but since you reject all of those why do you accept that one? Presumably you don't and that is why you found you argument on the unidentifiable legs. But that is not the basis for accepting the clock was slow: it is the arrival of the carabinieri car coupled with accepting the time the door was opened which does that.

It has been claimed here that the prosecution/police accepted the revision you propose: but I have asked for the evidence of that and so far it has not been forthcoming. Nor have I been able to find it. All I can see is that the police and other witnesses gave their testimony as to the timings; and the defence tried to displace that using this footage. I do not think that was accepted by the prosecution and in fact I cannot find any comment from them to that effect at all: but I may have missed it. I have asked you and others to steer me to where that was done, and I will be happy if you will now do so

But you tried to displace the burden of proof on to me. It is your claim, however, and the ball is in your court. What you seemed to say was that you could not link to a conversation which did not take place. Just so. If it did not take place then both accounts were placed before the court and they were left to make a judgement between them: that is their job. If that is how it was then this footage is there for us also to judge and we have done so. What now?
 
It is one point among a great many. Therefore, it is still a mystery how putting so much effort in attempting to remove one pirahna fish from the shoal improves the situation for your little angels.
Hee. If people accepted simple logic this particular piranha fish could've been put to bed, couldn't it?
 
No, Battistelli's word is unreliable in point of fact because he was shown to have lied in court. No wonder he didn't want to admit it took him so long to find the house - makes him look a bit incompetent.

Filomena and her friends support the timeline I described; they don't contradict it. They contradict any earlier arrival time for the postal police, though (her friends must have arrived at 12:46 at the latest under your theory, and they stated Filomena and friend arrived a few minutes afterward, so...). As you know, Raffaele admitted no such thing.


He wasn't shown to have 'lied' and you display your bias right there. What there was was a difference in opinion on how things happened. Who is to say his version wasn't the correct one? I will also, those who claimed he went in the room were being ushered out at the time, so they weren't right behind him and unable to see if he fully went into the room. He may have just stepped in the entrance way and then stepped back out, giving the appearance of him entering.

Anyway, if your that interested in it you will find much discussion on these subjects back on PMF during the time of testimony.
 
No, that is not the case. However I will explain again why I do not think your outline is plausible if that will help you

On the one hand we have the testimony of the police that they arrived around 12:25 camera time, and 12:30 on their own recollection. That would be about 12:35 if the clock is slow.

When they arrived they met AK and RS outside the cottage. They had a conversation which covered both the reasons for their visit (the phones) and the strange things which AK and RS had found and were concerned about. They were shown some of those things by AK and RS. They asked for the flatmates' numbers and those were written on a post it note. Luca and his friend arrived during all this and presumably they also had to be told something of what was going on.

At some point, presumably while the police were talking to Luca and his pal, AK and RS went into AK's room. They came out of that room when Filomena and Paola arrived shortly before 1:00. Filomena then also had to be brought up to speed and she discussed the phones and also the question of whether it was usual for Meredith to lock her door. The call to the police station was made at 1:00.

To me this time frame is plausible.

On your scenario the police arrived at 12:56 (or 12:58). All of those same conversations, arrivals, explanations etc have to be made in the course of 4 (or 2) minutes. That seems to me to be unlikely. Obviously you find it plausible. And that is a straightforward difference of opinion
No, this is not the case at all - the door wasn't broken down until at least 13:15, so there is no need for all these things to have happened in 2-4 minutes. From 12:56-13:01 is roughly when the conversation between the police and Amanda and Raffaele would have taken place, together with the activation of Meredith's phone when Amanda wrote down her number (at 1). Filomena's friends arrived to find them standing around the table with the phones/post-it on it (so let's say about 13:01) and they stated that Filomena and her friends arrived a couple of minutes later (let's say 13:03). Amanda and Raffaele may have ducked into her room for a few minutes after F's friends arrived to take over from the police, re-emerging when they heard Filomena come in. That leaves 15-20 minutes for everything else to take place (taking into account Amanda's 13:24 call to her mother, which must've happened shortly after the door had broken down given she'd just heard Filomena yelling about 'a foot').

We do have some evidence on each side: there is the testimony of the police about their time of arrival: there is also the testimony of Luca and of Filomena about their time of arrival. There is the testimony of RS, who said the police arrived before he called 112. All of that supports the time line I choose to accept
Raffaele said "My sister told me to call 112, which I did, but in the meantime the postal police arrived". Is that stating that the police arrived before he called 112? I would suggest that, at the very least, it's ambiguous. In fact if he's saying what you think he is, he must mean that the postal police arrived during the 30 seconds between his call to his sister and his 112 call...

As I said, Luca and Filomena's arrival time corresponds more closely with my arrival time than yours. With your theory, they would all have to have been mistaken about the time they arrived by about 15 minutes. Possible (though unlikely, given the number of witnesses), but either way it doesn't support your theory.

So that just leaves the postal police themselves, as I said.

On the other side we have the CCTV footage. You say that the idea that this does not show the police arrival is "implausible". I disagree. I have looked at it and I do not think it is possible to say it shows what it says it shows. Nor does it show the footage at 12:25 clock time. Rather odd, given the importance of that time. And that is all we have in support of the revision to the times
Obviously you're free to make your own mind up about it, but by doubting it shows the arrival of the postal police you differ from everyone in court. Fair enough, but I don't think this is a particularly credible position.

The fact we don't have footage fom 12:25 only tells us it doesn't show the postal police, not that it doesn't exist. Why would they have presented irrelevant footage in court? There is so much footage from other times (at least three times between 12:40 and 12:50, CCTV time) that it seems unlikely there was no footage between, say 12:20 and 12:40. Most likely there was, but it just didn't show the postal police.

The footage does show the arrival of the carabinieri. It seems reasonable to me that the clock was slow because of the time they are recorded as arriving. It is not certain because it relies on an accurate record that the door was opened at 1:15. Since I accept the timings given by the witnesses I accept the implication: but since you reject all of those why do you accept that one? Presumably you don't and that is why you found you argument on the unidentifiable legs. But that is not the basis for accepting the clock was slow: it is the arrival of the carabinieri car coupled with accepting the time the door was opened which does that.

It has been claimed here that the prosecution/police accepted the revision you propose: but I have asked for the evidence of that and so far it has not been forthcoming. Nor have I been able to find it. All I can see is that the police and other witnesses gave their testimony as to the timings; and the defence tried to displace that using this footage. I do not think that was accepted by the prosecution and in fact I cannot find any comment from them to that effect at all: but I may have missed it. I have asked you and others to steer me to where that was done, and I will be happy if you will now do so

But you tried to displace the burden of proof on to me. It is your claim, however, and the ball is in your court. What you seemed to say was that you could not link to a conversation which did not take place. Just so. If it did not take place then both accounts were placed before the court and they were left to make a judgement between them: that is their job. If that is how it was then this footage is there for us also to judge and we have done so. What now?
It's difficult to link to a lack of dispute, don't you think? They didn't dispute it - if they had, there would be evidence that they had done so, and there is none. The prosecution based their argument that the footage was 10 minutes fast on the footage of the postal police (for what other reason would they have made it?) - if they didn't even accept that the people on the footage were the postal police, there would have been no point in doing so.

As I've said, the only witness testimony I reject is that by the postal police. The timings of all other witnesses seem reasonable.
 
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I have no idea if Batistelli went into the room or not, if that is what Katy_did is claiming as an established "lie". I would not be surprised if he did cross the threshold: everybody who confronted the scene in that room must have been shocked and all are agreed that he took control and got everybody out very quickly. I imagine there was a lot of confusion and milling about. Police officers are not perfect witnesses and neither are shocked members of the public. Katy_did has shown on this that she is very quick to leap to the conclusion that people are "lying": matter of mind set, perhaps.
 
He wasn't shown to have 'lied' and you display your bias right there. What there was was a difference in opinion on how things happened. Who is to say his version wasn't the correct one? I will also, those who claimed he went in the room were being ushered out at the time, so they weren't right behind him and unable to see if he fully went into the room. He may have just stepped in the entrance way and then stepped back out, giving the appearance of him entering.

Anyway, if your that interested in it you will find much discussion on these subjects back on PMF during the time of testimony.
Hmmm... Battistelli said he didn't step into the room, because he'd said he didn't in his initial report. Yet two witnesses stated that not only did he step into the room, he walked over and lifted the quilt from Meredith (something which is entirely understandable, given the circumstances - is it likely he would just have presumed she was dead without checking?).

You're either saying the witnesses were lying, or that the police were. The witnesses have no reason to lie. The police, on the other hand...
 
I have no idea if Batistelli went into the room or not, if that is what Katy_did is claiming as an established "lie". I would not be surprised if he did cross the threshold: everybody who confronted the scene in that room must have been shocked and all are agreed that he took control and got everybody out very quickly. I imagine there was a lot of confusion and milling about. Police officers are not perfect witnesses and neither are shocked members of the public. Katy_did has shown on this that she is very quick to leap to the conclusion that people are "lying": matter of mind set, perhaps.
I'm just taking the lead from the people who see every little thing as evidence that Amanda and Raffaele are 'lying', I guess (wonder what people would have said if Amanda had been a whole 30 minutes out in her estimate of when a phone call happened, as Filomena was? I'm sure everyone would have just understood it as a normal lapse in memory. Not.)
 
No, this is not the case at all - the door wasn't broken down until at least 13:15,

How do you know this?


so there is no need for all these things to have happened in 2-4 minutes. From 12:56-13:01 is roughly when the conversation between the police and Amanda and Raffaele would have taken place, together with the activation of Meredith's phone when Amanda wrote down her number (at 1). Filomena's friends arrived to find them standing around the table with the phones/post-it on it (so let's say about 13:01) and they stated that Filomena and her friends arrived a couple of minutes later (let's say 13:03). Amanda and Raffaele may have ducked into her room for a few minutes after F's friends arrived to take over from the police, re-emerging when they heard Filomena come in. That leaves 15-20 minutes for everything else to take place (taking into account Amanda's 13:24 call to her mother, which must've happened shortly after the door had broken down given she'd just heard Filomena yelling about 'a foot').

If we ignore all the testimony from all the witnesses, perhaps. Why should we do that?


Raffaele said "My sister told me to call 112, which I did, but in the meantime the postal police arrived". Is that stating that the police arrived before he called 112? I would suggest that, at the very least, it's ambiguous.

You are entitled to your opinion

As I said, Luca and Filomena's arrival time corresponds more closely with my arrival time than yours. With your theory, they would all have to have been mistaken about the time they arrived by about 15 minutes. Possible (though unlikely, given the number of witnesses), but either way it doesn't support your theory.

I have no idea what you are talking about here.


Obviously you're free to make your own mind up about it, but by doubting it shows the arrival of the postal police you differ from everyone in court. Fair enough, but I don't think this is a particularly credible position.

Well, as I said, I am waiting for the link or the quote which supports that assertion.

The fact we don't have footage fom 12:25 only tells us it doesn't show the postal police, not that it doesn't exist. Why would they have presented irrelevant footage in court? There is so much footage from other times (at least three times between 12:40 and 12:50, CCTV time) that it seems unlikely there was no footage between, say 12:20 and 12:40. Most likely there was, but it just didn't show the postal police.

Speaking of "not very credible postions...." :)


It's difficult to link to a lack of dispute, don't you think? They didn't dispute it - if they had, there would be evidence that they had done so, and there is none. The prosecution based their argument that the footage was 10 minutes fast on the footage of the postal police (for what other reason would they have made it?) - if they didn't even accept that the people on the footage were the postal police, there would have been no point in doing so.

As I've said, the only witness testimony I reject is that by the postal police. The timings of all other witnesses seem reasonable.

I do not think that is an answer to the points I have raised.

As I said: you have laid out your belief and I disagree for reasons given.

If and when you provide the evidence that changes the picture we can perhaps find something to discuss. At present we all have the same information and we will conclude what seems reasonable to us. You pays your money ....
 
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No, this is not the case at all - the door wasn't broken down until at least 13:15, so there is no need for all these things to have happened in 2-4 minutes. From 12:56-13:01 is roughly when the conversation between the police and Amanda and Raffaele would have taken place, together with the activation of Meredith's phone when Amanda wrote down her number (at 1). Filomena's friends arrived to find them standing around the table with the phones/post-it on it (so let's say about 13:01) and they stated that Filomena and her friends arrived a couple of minutes later (let's say 13:03). Amanda and Raffaele may have ducked into her room for a few minutes after F's friends arrived to take over from the police, re-emerging when they heard Filomena come in. That leaves 15-20 minutes for everything else to take place (taking into account Amanda's 13:24 call to her mother, which must've happened shortly after the door had broken down given she'd just heard Filomena yelling about 'a foot').

Except Filomena and her friend arrived before 1 PM, her boyfriend and his friend arrived a good deal earlier then that. Or are they all lying?

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Raffaele said "My sister told me to call 112, which I did, but in the meantime the postal police arrived". Is that stating that the police arrived before he called 112? I would suggest that, at the very least, it's ambiguous.

Yes it is.

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Obviously you're free to make your own mind up about it, but by doubting it shows the arrival of the postal police you differ from everyone in court. Fair enough, but I don't think this is a particularly credible position.

Thanks for the permission.

I'm sorry, who is this 'everyone in court'? Show us.

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The fact we don't have footage fom 12:25 only tells us it doesn't show the postal police, not that it doesn't exist. Why would they have presented irrelevant footage in court? There is so much footage from other times (at least three times between 12:40 and 12:50, CCTV time) that it seems unlikely there was no footage between, say 12:20 and 12:40. Most likely there was, but it just didn't show the postal police.

Of course it doesn't exist. If it existed and showed no arrival, that would form the basis of part of the defence argument and be included in the file...don't you think? It's not irrelevant as it would prove no police arrived at that time or shortly thereafter.

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It's difficult to link to a lack of dispute, don't you think? They didn't dispute it - if they had, there would be evidence that they had done so, and there is none. The prosecution based their argument that the footage was 10 minutes fast on the footage of the postal police (for what other reason would they have made it?) - if they didn't even accept that the people on the footage were the postal police, there would have been no point in doing so.

What do you mean they didn't dispute it? How do you know? Were you in court?

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As I've said, the only witness testimony I reject is that by the postal police. The timings of all other witnesses seem reasonable.

All three of them it seems. How convenient for our arguments when we can just sweep the testimony of three professionals testifying on the facts under oath under the rug.

Then we can come up with ludicrous arrival times by the Postal Police of 12:56 or 12:58. Supposedly even when we consider the testimony of the others 'reliable', others who arrived well before one and found the police there.
 
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Hmmm... Battistelli said he didn't step into the room, because he'd said he didn't in his initial report. Yet two witnesses stated that not only did he step into the room, he walked over and lifted the quilt from Meredith (something which is entirely understandable, given the circumstances - is it likely he would just have presumed she was dead without checking?).

You're either saying the witnesses were lying, or that the police were. The witnesses have no reason to lie. The police, on the other hand...

Actually, they didn't testify that.
 
The witnesses have no reason to lie. The police, on the other hand..

You have already accused Filomena of lying, Katy_did. It seems to me you are very free with that accusation but only when it suits you


I'm just taking the lead from the people who see every little thing as evidence that Amanda and Raffaele are 'lying', I guess (wonder what people would have said if Amanda had been a whole 30 minutes out in her estimate of when a phone call happened, as Filomena was? I'm sure everyone would have just understood it as a normal lapse in memory. Not.)

Filomena was not half an hour out in her estimate of when the phone call happened and I have already shown this. You wouldn't be "lying", would you?
 
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I'm just taking the lead from the people who see every little thing as evidence that Amanda and Raffaele are 'lying', I guess (wonder what people would have said if Amanda had been a whole 30 minutes out in her estimate of when a phone call happened, as Filomena was? I'm sure everyone would have just understood it as a normal lapse in memory. Not.)

And yet strangely, even though seemingly quick to throw the word around, you've never once conceded Amanda or Raffaele ever lied.

And how else must things be viewed against them, when they've been proven to by lying on multiple occasions and the evidence shows their involvement in a brutal murder? Of COURSE all their actions are viewed with a greater weight of suspicion. What do you expect?
 
You have already accused Filomena of lying, Katy_did. It seems to me you are very free with that accusation but only when it suits you

Filomena was not half an hour out in her estimate of when the phone call happened and I have already shown this. You wouldn't be "lying", would you?
My use of the word in relation to Filomena was based on the fact that had Amanda been 30 minutes out in her estimation of when a phone call happened, she would have been called a liar. Now personally, I accept that people's memories are always fallible and they can make mistakes (the order in which phone calls are made, for instance, or they may forget a particular phone call, or they may make a mistake as to the time). But that's not the general opinion amongst the pro-guilt crew, hence I used the word 'liar' in the same way that it would have been applied to Amanda.

And yes, Filomena mistakenly said that Amanda's 12:08 call to her took place at 12:35. She was also around 10 minutes out in her estimation of when one of the later calls happened.
 
My use of the word in relation to Filomena was based on the fact that had Amanda been 30 minutes out in her estimation of when a phone call happened, she would have been called a liar. Now personally, I accept that people's memories are always fallible and they can make mistakes (the order in which phone calls are made, for instance, or they may forget a particular phone call, or they may make a mistake as to the time). But that's not the general opinion amongst the pro-guilt crew, hence I used the word 'liar' in the same way that it would have been applied to Amanda.

And yes, Filomena mistakenly said that Amanda's 12:08 call to her took place at 12:35. She was also around 10 minutes out in her estimation of when one of the later calls happened.

First of all, Filomena is not on trial for murder, neither has she ever been caught blatantly lying. Secondly, does that come from Filomena's testimony on the stand?

Finally I will say, it has been a defence mechanism among Amanda's supporters (and you have certainly not bucked the trend) to attempt to smear everyone around them, whenever convenient, be it witnesses, police, judges, experts or prosecutors whenever they offer something inconvenient to the agenda.

Perhaps one day, your finger will get so tired from repeatedly pointing it at various people, it will fall off.
 
Except Filomena and her friend arrived before 1 PM, her boyfriend and his friend arrived a good deal earlier then that. Or are they all lying?
No, Filomena said 'around 1', not before. Are you saying Filomena's friends arrived at 12:46, and Filomena and Paola at 1?
Of course it doesn't exist. If it existed and showed no arrival, that would form the basis of part of the defence argument and be included in the file...don't you think? It's not irrelevant as it would prove no police arrived at that time or shortly thereafter.
Of course it exists. No, I don't think the defence would present footage which didn't show anything, oddly enough. Unless the camera was on consistently between 12:20 and 12:40, the prosecution could simply claim the police arrived during one of the blank periods. That is, if they disputed the footage in the first place, which they didn't; they just tried to argue the footage was 10 minutes fast. What footage there was, obviously didn't show them.
What do you mean they didn't dispute it? How do you know? Were you in court?
So you are now claiming they did dispute it? Can I take it you agree with Fiona, then, that the images on the CCTV did not show the postal police?

I presume you're also arguing that the prosecution did not claim the CCTV footage was ten minutes fast (there would be no reason to do so unless they accepted the footage showed the postal police).
All three of them it seems. How convenient for our arguments when we can just sweep the testimony of three professionals testifying on the facts under oath under the rug.

Then we can come up with ludicrous arrival times by the Postal Police of 12:56 or 12:58. Supposedly even when we consider the testimony of the others 'reliable', others who arrived well before one and found the police there.
Were there three members of the postal police? I was under the impression there were only two.

Battistelli lied in court, He's hardly reliable now, is he? And given the choice between eyewitness testimony and objective facts like cell phone records and CCTV footage, I would personally go for the latter. Your mileage may vary, obviously.
 
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One of them did (were you splitting hairs, there?)

It's hardly splitting hairs. You stated two people testified to seeing this. That is not a mere 'detail'. It is also what you used as justification for labelling someone a liar. Weasel words won't get you out of that.

So, in effect, it was the word of one against one. And Fiona and I explained well earlier why that one person's testimony needs to be viewed very carefully. You on the other hand, want to leap to an absolute statement of fact and then pass judgement.
 
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You have already accused Filomena of lying, Katy_did. It seems to me you are very free with that accusation but only when it suits you

Filomena was not half an hour out in her estimate of when the phone call happened and I have already shown this. You wouldn't be "lying", would you?

Katy_did said:
My use of the word in relation to Filomena was based on the fact that had Amanda been 30 minutes out in her estimation of when a phone call happened, she would have been called a liar. Now personally, I accept that people's memories are always fallible and they can make mistakes (the order in which phone calls are made, for instance, or they may forget a particular phone call, or they may make a mistake as to the time). But that's not the general opinion amongst the pro-guilt crew, hence I used the word 'liar' in the same way that it would have been applied to Amanda.


Lets look, shall we?

Filomena lied about the time Amanda first called her, claiming it was 12:35 when actually it was 12:08. Why shouldn't she be lying about the things Amanda said, too?

Didn't think so :)

Katy_did said:
And yes, Filomena mistakenly said that Amanda's 12:08 call to her took place at 12:35. She was also around 10 minutes out in her estimation of when one of the later calls happened.

No, she didn't. See post #3366.

You are not doing your case any favours here by repeating such assertions.
 
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